As expected, weather is causing many flight delays, particularly today in Texas and the New York region. Icy wings are a big issue. Fewer commercial flights mean slower movement of USPS.
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Lake, please remember Covid started here in NY with a guy from Scarsdale who had travelled abroad. The case was covered minute-by minute in the local news as he was successfully treated at Columbia Presbyterian. Everyone was scared shitless and a lot of New Yorkers died.
We also got to the point of having refrigerated tractor-trailers parked outside the loading docks of our local hospitals, makeshift hospital tents being raised in Central Park, a US Navy hospital ship docked on the west side of Manhattan and the Javits Convention Center being made over as a hospital.
The local funeral homes and crematoria were totally overrun. If we are a bit more cautious about Covid in the NY area, you may understand why. Plus we have almost as many hypochondriacs as South Florida.
FWIW, I never got Covid, but family members have tested positive for it without any symptoms. I still take precautions due to other medical issues.
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Back on weather ā¦ we found it pretty unique to see parts of the Gulf coast to be under a winter weather alert with the possibility of snow ā¦ one doesnāt see that to often ā¦
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I saw one weather person describe it as āonce in a lifetimeā type event.
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The weather pattern we are seeing this week is a polar vortex, which is leading to the extreme cold.
I seem to remember another polar vortex not too many years ago
I asked CoPilot and there was a previous polar vortex in the US in 2021, affecting many of the same areas.
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Yes, weāve had nasty polar vortices in the past; but those (at least recent ones) did not result in predictions for snow on the beaches of Texas and Louisiana.
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I meanā¦ 5-8" of SNOW predicted for NEW ORLEANS. 
Nothing Iāve personally seen before (I wasnāt alive for the 1" in 1963).
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2025-01-19-winter-storm-enzo-south-snow-ice-forecast-houston-new-orleans
Snow in New Orleans and the Deep South? It's happened before | 13newsnow.com
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Because Mother Nature can ?
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Mother nature DRUNK
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We donāt exactly know each other, but as far as I can tell Iāve never had it. I even got tested after being exposed to someone who had contracted it.
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When I woke up this morning it was -11. Weāre now up to +4. It is sunny outside and they have predicted a high of 24 degrees today. Tomorrow is supposed to be above freezing.
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Baby itās cold outsideā¦ 
Woke up at +11. A balmy 17 at the moment. Not predicted to break the freezing mark till Sat here.
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Well ā¦ you could dance to āIce Ice Baby ā¦ Ice Ice Babyā for few days to stay warm.
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ā¦ and if you do ā¦ WE WANT VIDEO PROOF!
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I was, and we still have pictures taken @ the time by family members in Biloxi, MS & Gulf Shores, AL; I was also living in Tampa the year it had both snow and ice for Christmas (1990).
While weather conditions such as the present are rare, the article is correct that this isnāt entirely unprecedented.
May everyone impacted Stay Safeā¦
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Still -2, feels like -22.
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Friends in Pearland, TX and Atascocita, TX are reporting 4-5 inches of snow. This is in the Houston metropolitan area, right on the coast and the latter on Lake Houston.
These cities donāt have ploughs(though do have sand or brine, in some cases). In many cases the folks donāt have heavy outerwear. I was in Houston-area 1960 and 1973, during two heavy, record-setting snow falls. Everything came to a halt and remember, because itās a coastal area, pipes will freeze and break. Lots own generators because of the hurricanes, so many have some power but may not have wrapped their pipes!!
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Weāre up to a balmy 1, with a windchill of -17. It could be worse! Those in the far northern part of my state had -50!
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Same area in Texas was hit in 2021 when the power grid went down and 200+ people lost their life because of it.
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